Yup, well those were the 80's, no qr zed, I think the
first data bases might have just been coming out, call
books cost a bundle.

--- John Miller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I knew a guy who got away with it for a while, in
> fact quite a few people
> I've caught over the years,  if you don't have a
> computer in front of you to
> look these people up, you can talk to them and never
> know it. I usually look
> new people up I've never worked before, anyone I've
> never worked I look up
> either at the time or later down the road just to be
> sure. Most often was
> with the group I was with on 10 meters we'd have
> people with out the right
> class of license come up.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "shawn klein" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 9:18 AM
> Subject: Re: concerns when transmitting in a
> hospital
>
>
> > Oh people have been bootlegging other people's
> calls
> > for almost as long as ham radio has been in
> existance,
> > Can't say I've ever heard of the legitimate holder
> of
> > the call getting in trouble. I think most of these
> > guys just pick a likely sounding call out of the
> air
> > anyway, so the holder is often in another state. I
> > knew a guy who bootlegged k3npr, always said
> National
> > Public Radio for phonetics, this was in Phoenix on
> 2
> > meters in the late 80's, he was always on the 2 to
> 10
> > link, and wasn't till a year or so later it was
> > questioned, I was a new ham then, and old timers
> > thought he was legit. This guy was still running
> his
> > mouth, on 11 meters freeband, in the mid 90's.
> >





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